Affiliation:
1. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Innovation & Industry Services, Technology Partnerships Office, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
Abstract
In Science—The Endless Frontier, Vannevar Bush wrote that reaping the potential
benefits of science conducted at federal laboratories requires the discoveries made in
the laboratories be transferred to society. In federal laboratories, Offices of Research
and Technology Applications (ORTAs) are tasked with transferring laboratory-developed
technologies to the market, allowing society to reap the benefits provided by scientific
investments. In fiscal year 2016, the Technology Partnerships Office of the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted a first-of-its-kind survey of the
ORTAs of more than 50 federal laboratories to obtain information on their organization
and operation. We present descriptive analyses of the responses to this survey in two
topical areas: organizational characteristics and technology transfer characteristics.
We disaggregated the data across the dimension of budget size to describe similarities
and differences in responses across the budget categories. Among the relationships we
observed, we found that ORTAs with larger technology transfer budgets report higher
frequencies of conducting internal technology transfer activities, such as patent
prosecution (e.g., drafting patents, filing patent applications, and responding to
actions from the patent office) and market analysis. Additionally, we provide context to
the data by summarizing the relevant research on ORTAs at universities, and we present
potential inferences that may be drawn from that body of research and applied to the
data on ORTAs at federal laboratories.
Publisher
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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